Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website

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Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company
that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Toni Townes ’85 is a onetime policy analyst
with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace
Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an
African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998.

George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.

As reported by the Washington Examiner in early October, the
Department of Health and Human Services reviewed only CGI’s bid for the
Obamacare account. CGI was one of 16 companies qualified under the Bush
administration to provide certain tech services to the federal
government. A senior vice president for the company testified this week
before The House Committee on Energy and Commerce that four companies
submitted bids, but did not name those companies or explain why only
CGI’s bid was considered.

On the government end, construction of the disastrous Healthcare.gov website was overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of longtime failed website-builder Kathleen Sebelius’ Department of Health and Human Services.

Update: The Daily Caller repeatedly contacted CGI
Federal for comment. After publication of this article, the company
responded that there would be “nothing coming out of CGI for the record
or otherwise today.” The company did however insist that The Daily
Caller include a reference to vice president Cheryl Campbell’s House
testimony. This has been included as a courtesy to the company.